Sentences with phrase «qualified voters of the state»

Any judge seeking additional terms must be reappointed, reconfirmed, and subject to a retention election by the qualified voters of the state.

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The extent to which the state controls the primary election machinery appears from the Texas statutes, as follows: Art. 3118, Vernon's Texas Statutes, provides for the election of a county chairman for each party holding a primary by the «qualified voters of the whole county,» and of one member of the party's county executive committee by the «qualified voters of their respective election precincts.»

Section 7 of Article 2 of the Washington State Constitution states, «No person shall be eligible to the legislature who shall not be a citizen of the United States and a qualified voter in the district for which he is chosen.&states, «No person shall be eligible to the legislature who shall not be a citizen of the United States and a qualified voter in the district for which he is chosen.&States and a qualified voter in the district for which he is chosen.»

«I have read about him lecturing [state Sen.] Andrea Stewart - Cousins that [state Sen.] Jeff Klein is more qualified in understanding suburban voters, better than she does, despite her being a Senator who oversees the suburbs of Westchester.»

1 A party is qualified if it meets one of three conditions: (1) in the last gubernatorial election, one of its statewide candidates polled at least two percent of the statewide vote; (2) the party's membership is at least one percent of the statewide vote at the last preceding gubernatorial election; or (3) voters numbering at least 10 percent of the statewide vote at the last gubernatorial election sign a petition stating that they intend to form a new party.

This is the case over whether Kansas must let voters register as members of parties that are not ballot - qualified but which are active in elections in that state.

So long as voters sit out elections, the Democrats fail to recruit qualified candidates and the Republicans sit out city elections altogether, we're stuck with the current state of affairs.

Also, article 94 of Ghana's Constitution states that «Subject to the provisions of this article, a person shall not be qualified to be a Member of Parliament unless (a) he is a citizen of Ghana, has attained the age of twenty - one years and is a registered voter.»

Article II, Section 2 of the Alaska Constitution states: A member of the legislature shall be a qualified voter who has been a resident of Alaska for at least three years and of the district from which elected for at least one year, immediately preceding his filing for office.

The issue in the lawsuit is whether a state may require a small qualified party to attract as much as 15 % of the primary voters to choose that party's primary ballot, if it wants to have nominees for the legislature on the November ballot.

State Officer Mark Kravis is leading the Reform Party of California in a voter registration drive to boost its membership numbers this election cycle as well, in order to qualify for ballot access in 2016.

The lone state in which he did not qualify was Louisiana, where he would have needed 1,000 signatures by September of voters who were not registered as members of the Democratic or Republican Parties.

Now we have a president who «love [s] the poorly educated,» who makes up his own «facts,» who's never been accountable to anyone and intends to keep it that way, who blathers about «choice» as a civil rights issue — as have the two presidents before him; only he, with DeVos, the least qualified Secretary of Education this country's ever had, will do what none has done before, what most voters don't approve, legalize vouchers and route public funding into religious schools, thereby undermining another foundation of our democracy, the separation of church and state.

The group's measure was cleared in March by the Secretary of State's office for circulation, meaning supporters have until Sept. 21 to collect some 366,000 valid voter signatures needed to qualify it for the ballot.

The court also concluded that the «special limited purpose» of the nominating commission - selecting the most qualified candidates for judicial appointments for the governor's consideration - disproportionately impacts a definable group of constituents - the members of the Iowa bar - over other voters in the state.

The definition the term «employee» to mean: an individual employed by an employer, except that the term «employee» shall not include any person elected to public office in any State or political subdivision of any State by the qualified voters thereof, or any person chosen by such officer to be on such officer's personal staff, or an appointee on the policy making level or an immediate adviser with respect to the exercise of the constitutional or legal powers of the office.

Each person, who at the time he or she applies for registration resides in the district in which he or she expects to vote, who will be of the age of 18 years or more at the next ensuing election, who is a citizen of the United States, and who, if he or she continues to reside in the district until the next election, will at the time have fulfilled all the requirements as to length of residence to qualify him or her as a legal voter, shall, unless otherwise disqualified, be entitled to be registered in such district.

In a statement this week, West Virginia's Secretary of State Mac Warner revealed that currently deployed, registered and qualified military voters from Harrison County and Monongalia County, as well as their spouses and dependents, are able to cast their votes in the upcoming May 8 election via a secure mobile application.